A Mississippi city with a long history of racially motivated violence has enacted an ordinance to improve the collection and reporting of hate crime data in reaction to growing concerns in the wake of the Charleston church massacre.
Congress has held recent hearings on how overseas terrorists spread propaganda to radicalize and recruit but has not examined how domestic extremists are using the same tactics.
In what may not be a coincidence, a string of nighttime fires have damaged or destroyed at least six predominately black churches in four southern states in the past week.
The Council of Conservative Citizens, a white supremacist group cited by the accused Charleston killer, has a long history of associations with mainstream politicians who’ve given the group legitimacy.
Today, we found out more about how the suspected Charleston church shooter, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, became a violent racist extremist at such a young age.
Our hearts go out to the victims and their families. Black churches, including those in South Carolina, have been the targets of hate crimes throughout our country's history. We know that they will remain resolute and their faith unshaken in the face of this tragedy.
Racists marked the end of an era with the March 5 death of Gordon Lee Baum, founder of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white nationalist hate group that at the height of its power had 15,000 dues-paying members, among them some of Washington’s most powerful politicians.
Same-sex marriage, immigration, globalization and Islam were out, while a picture of a bare-chested Vladimir Putin astride a bear was in, at the paradoxically named International Russian Conservative Forum, a gathering of extreme-right ultranationalist groups from Europe and the U.S. in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Almost 14 years after the 9/11 terror attacks sparked a violent backlash against American Muslims, anti-Muslim hatred is again on the rise as activists and politicians exploit atrocities committed by the Islamic State and other jihadists, according to the new issue of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report.
Allegations of Embezzlement, Money Laundering and Tax Fraud Haunt the New Chairman of the National Alliance
